fiction

A playlist of fiction produced for radio, from a piece of original writing inspired by the Large Hadron Collider to Miranda July reading one of her own short stories. 

Jack Handey offers deep thoughts on how to make your skeleton as scary as possible — all the better to frighten future grave robbers.

Junot Diaz says writing about a fictional adolescence launched a professional coming-of-age, but he’s still fifteen years behind.

Lois Lowry’s “The Giver” was one of the first dystopian YA novels — and one of the most banned. 

In “Super Sad True Love Story,” Gary Shteyngart imagines a dystopian world that’s frighteningly familiar.